HTML 5 Will Leave Video in the Air

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Mon, 07/06/2009 - 10:00

HTML 5 — the next generation of the language that defines the World Wide Web — has made great strides in the way browsers handle media.

Rather than utilizing proprietary technologies like Flash or Silverlight, HTML 5 will implement audio and video tags that provide multimedia content outside the existing frameworks.

For all its progress, however, it's now known that what the specification won't have is a standard video codec.

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